Chelsea this week had two beautiful and talented performers on. Eva Longoria, who was on for “Mexico” night and Charlize Theron to promote her latest film effort and to talk about HIV and Aids. Topics included Donald Trump, on both episodes, Mexico, Puerto Rico and Sumner Redstone.
The upcoming Republican and Democratic National Conventions were touched on briefly by Jacob Soboroff from MSNBC and her third guest was Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef . Two assistants came on at the beginning to talk Sumner Redstone, part two.
Both shows were informative and interesting but episode 26 was, perhaps, the most amusing. The Sumner Redstone “Part 2” analysis was a rehash of the billionaire’s increasingly bizarre behavior.
Politics slowed things down but at least there was talk of dumping Donald Trump as the Republican candidate for the presidency. Interestingly enough, Bassem Youssef showed how to lose a western audience with his “killing Christians” quip before talking about red Christmas cups.
Right up until the quip, Youssef had the audience in the palm of his hand. He made some great humorous points about the US political system and made fun of Trump’s campaign rhetoric “I’m going to bring back Christmas.” (As Bassem pointed out, “Where did it go?”)
Theron, was on at the start of the episode (after the Sumner infographic) and she talked a little about her latest film, Kubo and the Two Strings. The oscar winner voices the monkey who “adopts” a boy and looks after him.
She then moved on to speak about her own adopted son and how her body generated pregnancy symptoms while she waited for the process to finish. She and Chelsea talked about more Charlize’s son Jackson and then the subject moved to HIV and AIDs charity work. Theron passed on some disturbing facts about the disease and ended by saying that “We could be the generation that ends HIV.”
The previous night featured Eva Longoria who revealed that she is Mexican. That episode was about “all things Mexico.” Chelsea went to a bullfight, which was rather revolting – the bullfight, not Chelsea being there – and visited with the former presidente and Diego Lun.
Longoria came on to talk about moving to Mexico and being a “Texican.” She also talked about her new clothing line opening. Eva explained a good bit about Texas history, which used to be a country.She also reveled that she only recently learned Spanish.
This week on Chelsea things were not quite as bubbly as the prior week. The guests were interesting but not quirky and the humor was fairly low key. There was an educational slant to these episodes. Longoria with her history lesson on Texas, the bullfighting lesson and the political information about the Republican Convention.
It is to Chelsea’s credit that all her shows are entertaining, even the esoteric and eclectic ones. The actual sight of matadors stabbing the bull and eventually killing it was disturbing and those who are easily upset should not watch this segment.
There was a plus side however. Only Chelsea Handler could turn the whole bullfighting segment into a joke about anal sex and prison.
Chelsea airs on Netflix. Tune in if you are fan of Ms.Handler.
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